Personal Training
A good personal trainer is part-instructor, coach, mentor and friend with a love of fitness, healthy lifestyle and a desire to share knowledge, experience and passion with others in a comfortable and private environment. All personal trainers should be healthy, fit, and active practicing what they preach, their focus the success and care of their clients.
Why? to achieve personal health and fitness goals.
To improve fitness, strength, mobility, flexibility, recovery.
To aid weight loss, rehabilitation, confidence, relief from stress and anxiety, mental health and work life balance.
How? by focussing on a clients individual needs.
Providing support, encouragement and understanding, to set achievable and measurable goals.
What? Tailored, specific programs one-to-one/two.
By offering a wide range of exercise options, resistance with weights/body weight, cardiovascular training, Pilates, exercise to music and stretch/flexibility training in a well equipped, private environment either gym or studio based in the form of one to one or two personal training sessions.
Although the type of training and training style they deliver, may vary, the role of a PT remains constant:
To help people pursue or maintain a healthy lifestyle.
To educate people about the many ways to engage in physical exercise and healthy living.
To help people achieve their personal health and fitness goals.
Personal trainers should understand and practice:
Knowledge of human anatomy and the concepts of functional exercise, exercise science, and basic nutrition.
The ability to successfully assess and screen their clients, both initially and progressively.
The ability to design health, wellbeing, and physical fitness programs that are tailored to their specific needs, wants, and goals.
The ability to execute fitness programs that are both safe and effective.
A thorough understanding of cardiovascular, resistance and flexibility exercises.
A dedication to personal and professional integrity.
I am able to deliver safe, effective, and interesting workouts to the clients I serve. The training programs taught by myself, most of which are offered on a one-to-one basis, are varied and progressive, and are geared towards improving my clients health and wellbeing. In addition I help my clients to manage the their weight loss goals with nutritional advice and support as part of their personal training programs. My role is to teach, be supportive and an enthusiastic champion of physical fitness and wellbeing. My overall goal includes not only teaching my clients, but providing them with the encouragement, confidence and motivation they need to persevere with their programs so they can achieve their fitness objectives and benefit from the advantages listed below.
1. Help build and maintain lean muscle mass
Building strength is crucial for maintaining a strong metabolism as you age, since it increases lean muscle mass that naturally declines as someone gets older. Muscle mass plays a significant role in maintaining a healthy weight and general metabolic functions - for example, helping with insulin sensitivity, thyroid function and hormonal balance. Generally the more lean muscle you hold on your frame, the higher your basal metabolic rate is, which means you need more calories just to maintain your weight on any given day.
When you build more muscle, you burn more fat even when you're at rest or simply sleeping! Body weight exercises can also result in increased growth hormone production. Growth hormones are often referred to as our natural fountains of youth, because they're what help us retain lean body mass and fat-burning abilities.
2. Improve heart health
Exercise of any kind causes the heart to pump blood stronger and more effectively, which reduces blood pressure levels naturally and improves circulation. The heart is strengthened just like any other muscle when it's routinely put under more pressure, so it adapts by gaining the ability to do its job better. Strength-training exercises are also linked to healthier blood cholesterol levels and less risk for a heart attack or stroke.
3. Reduce risk for diabetes
Exercise helps with removal of glucose (sugar) from the blood, ushering the glucose into your muscles to be as stored as glycogen and used for energy at a later time. Another benefit of this process is that it prevents a high level of glycation end products from accumulating in the bloodstream, which over time can damage blood vessels, organs and tissues.
4. Improves mood and helps to fights depression
Exercise biologically reduces stress and is linked to improvements in self-esteem, confidence, the ability to problem solve, better sleep and emotional health. When you exercise, your body releases endorphins, chemicals that give you a natural high and lift your mood, helping with depression and to improve low energy levels.
5. Help maintain cognitive function
Strength training is often linked to longevity and a reduction in DNA damage due to the anti-aging effects of muscle mass. The hormone BDNF, which is stimulated by exercise, helps brain cells regenerate even as someone becomes older. Exercise also lowers oxidative stress and inflammation, which are linked to cognitive disorders like Alzheimer's disease, dementia and so on.
6. Improve health of joints and bones
Increasing muscle mass offers protection of joints and bones, since stronger muscles mean that you rely less on your joints to move around. Exercising has been shown to help improve back pain, ankles, knees and hips, while also increasing bone strength and density. Weight-bearing exercises increase your body's fortification of bone reserves and protect your skeletal frame, which is crucial for preventing fractures, falls and bone loss into older age (especially for women who are at a higher risk for osteoporosis).